BRIDESHEAD REVISITED PBS, beginning Jan. 18, 8 p.m., E.S.T. It is an odd
book by one of the century's oddest writers, and even he had serious
reservations about it. "I reread Brideshead and was appalled," he wrote
Graham Greene in 1950, five years after publication. But Brideshead
Revisited, overwritten and underplotted, is and probably will remain
Evelyn Waugh's best-known and most popular novel, a lush, sentimental
tribute to Catholicism and to the period between the wars that Waugh
regarded as the last gorgeous days...